Police body cam footage from the University of Central Florida has exploded online after showing a chaotic campus arrest that quickly turned into a viral spectacle. The video centers on Jarrett Vick, a 27-year-old student with blue hair, who clashed with officers during a theft investigation and kept demanding to be addressed with the proper pronouns.
The encounter happened last February, but it did not catch fire on social media until recently, when clips began racing across X and drawing millions of views. According to the reporting, the video has pulled in more than seven million views in just two days on one post alone, with reposts pushing the total well past 20 million across the platform.
From the moment police arrive, Vick is already agitated and shouting at officers on the scene. He can be heard yelling, “Why do you let those pigs get away with this? They’re not supposed to be here!” before escalating even further when an officer tells him to calm down.
That is where the whole situation goes off the rails. When an officer says, “He is having a breakdown,” Vick immediately fires back, “She! She!” and demands, “Just say the right pronoun!” The outburst keeps building from there, and police eventually use pepper spray as he refuses to settle down.
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The body cam footage shows officers trying to restrain him while the shouting continues. Vick repeatedly yells “She! She!” as he is handcuffed, and at one point he turns to a university staff member and asks them to “please just tell them to use the right pronouns” because being called “he” causes “a lot of distress.”
That attempt at intervention does not go anywhere. The staffer briefly tries to step in, but after Vick screams “Get away! F*** you, cop!” the moment only gets messier, with Vick trying to kick officers and swing at them before being tasered. The footage ends with him placed in the back of a squad car, still in full meltdown mode.
Vick’s arrest also fits into a broader pattern of tense police encounters tied to gender pronouns and identity disputes. In another Florida case, officers were left scratching their heads during a traffic stop when a person insisted on “they/them” pronouns and went on about “generational trauma” after what they viewed as a rejection of “non-binary” identities.
That context is part of why the UCF body cam video caught so much attention so fast. The clip is not just about one arrest, but about how fast a public confrontation can spiral when anger, identity language, and police authority collide in real time.
Vick was charged with battery for attacking officers, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. He later told the New York Post that he was “(expletive) harassed by the cops,” pleaded not guilty on all three counts, and Orange County records show the case has since been marked closed.
Even with the case closed, the video keeps circulating because it is hard to ignore once you see it. The shouting, the repeated pronoun demands, the pepper spray, and the taser all make for a rough scene, and social media has been treating it like must-see footage ever since it broke loose online.
